On June 2, 2010, while walking to the parking lot after exiting Brooke Army Medical Center, I had a Sudden Cardiac Death! BOOM! DROP DOWN! DEAD! Two days later I woke up in BAMC (An ER physician had been walking next to me and he started immediate CPR.)

When was I supposed to see the "tunnel of light," feel the "warmth," see the "angels," etc. etc. NOTHING!!!

Total black from the moment I dropped dead until two days later! So, how long do you have to wait after you're dead to see all that stuff the religious people promise? Was I dead too short a time?? What is the appropriate waiting period?? Anyone read or heard how long you have to wait for the good stuff to start??

At any rate, glad to be back!!

Samm

(An ER physician had been walking next to me and he started immediate CPR.)

When was I supposed to see the "tunnel of light," feel the "warmth," see the "angels," etc. etc. NOTHING!!!

I have seen cartoons (The Simpsons) concerning those issues. I have never read anything on the subject. My understanding (from the cartoon) is that the tunnel of light appears immediately and that you will be speaking with the creator god within moments.

Concerning the physician it reminds me of a lady who talked about a lady friend of hers who survived an auto accident. She said it was due to the power of prayer and etc that she survived. The doctors did not expect her to live. I told her it was due to 500 years of medical research. Without that knowledge she would not have left the wreckage of the vehicle alive.

And yes I am glad you are still here with us.

It happened. You just forgot. Ta-da, God lives on. Nothing to see here folks.

Congrats on your recovery. If that had happened to a christian, local TV would have reported and called it a miracle - despite the fact that it happened outside of an ER, right next to an ER doctor. -- Obviously Jesus put that doctor there just for you.

By the way, miracle visions have a very short expiration date. They spoil quickly. They will be unusable within three minutes of being exposed to oxygen - to the brain.

I think the whole "tunnel" thing is about as realistic as any "common spiritual experience" that is passed around in the current zeitgeist.

I always like to remind myself, when I hear something that many others agree happened to them also, that more people claim to have personally seen Elvis (after his death) than claim to have seen UFOs. Let alone had a "tunnel experience".

...besides, the tunnel experience can be reproduced through oxygen deprivation, without dying (although you still may, at least a little inside -- of your brain) psychology.jrank.org

Congrats on your recovery. If that had happened to a christian, local TV would have reported and called it a miracle - despite the fact that it happened outside of an ER, right next to an ER doctor. -- Obviously Jesus put that doctor there just for you.

By the way, miracle visions have a very short expiration date. They spoil quickly. They will be unusable within three minutes of being exposed to oxygen - to the brain.

Amen. I mean...well said, sir.

On old tube-style TV sets, the picture would always condense down to a dot which would then fade away when you turned off the set. Perhaps the tunnel effect is similar to that. Your brain, in a state of shock, enters a tunnel-vision-like state of panic and everything fades to white as you lose consciousness. I have fainted before and rather than fading to black, it seems everything fades to white (at least for me).

Wow, Samm, thanks for sharing! And welcome back to life.

But your story makes me sad... The only positive to dying is actually being able to achieve the out-of-body experience. I was excited to reunite with my dead, loved ones (at least mentally b/f my brain shuts down). And now you are telling me there is a possibility I wont be able to experience the mismatch between visual and tactile signals???

Maybe the only people who get this experience are those who are on their way to heaven.

Thats funny. Head for the white light of heaven or run to the red light of hell. No one ever talks about the red light.